The hacking group, dubbed Flax Typhoon, was “targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S. and overseas, everyone from corporations and media organizations to universities and government ...

The Treasury Department says Integrity Tech operated Flax Typhoon's botnet—a network of at least 260,000 compromised devices that helped the attackers hide their identities.

To remove the threat, the FBI executed Court authorized operations that led to taking control of the botnet infrastructure. In response, Flax Typhoon tried to migrate infected devices to new ...

The nodes allowed Flax Typhoon members to manually operate Tier 2 nodes using the Secure Shell remote interface. Besides management, Tier 3 also collects data. Connections between these two tiers ...

Wray said Flax Typhoon had routed malicious traffic through a network of hijacked devices called a "a botnet." In this case, the devices included cameras and digital storage devices that Wray said ...

It said that as of this past June, the Flax Typhoon botnet was making use of more than 260,000 devices in North America, Europe, Africa and Southeast East.

The sanctions land months after the U.S. government accused Integrity Technology, also known as Yongxin Zhicheng, of running a botnet associated with the Flax Typhoon hacking group. The botnet ...

The Justice Department disrupted a massive Chinese spy operation with the help of private sector investigators.

Flax Typhoon, allegedly run by Beijing-based company Integrity Technology Group, controlled more than 200,000 domestic devices, the US DoJ says.

Wray said the Flax Typhoon botnet had caused "real harm to its victims," offering a company in California as an example, explaining it had suffered "an all-hands-on-deck cybersecurity incident, ...

After extensive investigating, Horka's team followed a digital trail of breadcrumbs that led back to China, specifically a group known as Flax Typhoon. Ultimately, the botnet's activities were ...

After extensive investigating, Horka's team followed a digital trail of breadcrumbs that led back to China, specifically a group known as Flax Typhoon. Ultimately, the botnet's activities were ...